About:
Rikki Poynter is a 26-year- old deaf vlogger on YouTube. She makes content about
deaf awareness, accessibility/closed captioning awareness, mental health,
feminism, and more.
Since making her first deaf related video on October 1st, 2014, Rikki has been on
the Huffington Post, Mic News, Upworthy, ABC News, BBC Newsbeat, BBC Ouch,
BBC See Hear, and other news outlets in various countries. Also, she has been
working on her new closed captioning campaign, #LIGHTSCAMERACAPTION, to
try to get more YouTubers to closed caption their videos. After hopefully one day
taking over YouTube, she wants to work on the rest of the Internet.